PORTUGAL: April's Fading Carnation

With a large crowd of dignitaries looking
on, Portuguese Foreign Minister Mario Scares last week took a historic
step for the world's oldest empire. He signed an agreement in Algiers
granting independence to the 600,000 people of the West African
territory of Portuguese Guinea, henceforth to be known as
Guinea-Bissau. It was the first official move by Portugal to give
independence to its African territories, which have been racked by
guerrilla war; Angola and Mozambique will be next. And it came four
months and a day after a coup in Lisbon paved...